People who have seen their face posted on reddit by another person. What was your reaction?

It was more 4chan rather than reddit, but the reactions were similar, just more mild here.

It happened a few times a few years ago while I had a style blog where I'd post photos of my outfits (nothing untoward ever before assumptions head there), and I would see myself popping up fairly often. At first I'd read with a morbid curiousity, because it's not often you get to see exactly what people think of your appearance when they don't know you can hear/see, then I got a little bored because the comments became fairly repetitive, and then I just lost interest entirely in seeing what people thought. I don't know if I ever still pop up now, probably not because it was several years ago.

I never replied or participated anywhere I saw myself. It would have felt weird to - I would only ever purely observe. I ended up developing a pretty thick skin because of it. I don't know whether the explicit sexual compliments or the unnecessarily cruel comments bothered me more at first, but pretty soon neither of them did. I mean I've heard pretty much the whole spectrum of compliment to insult that could be hurled at me now, from dreams of me being the perfect waifu to horrible sexual compliments that sounded more like threats to cruel deconstructions of every flaw in my appearance to wild and hurtful assumptions on my lifestyle based on shoe choice. For a while the topic switched to suggesting I was actually secretly a man, which I think was the most baffling period. So nothing really shocks me now, which is nice.

I turned up on Reddit once, as far as I know, on short haired hotties and the photo got two mild compliments and a tiny handful of upvotes. Less interesting when I'm not being called a disgusting vapid hooknose or something, really so the reaction was more just "Oh, that's nice".

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